WND EXCLUSIVE
'WE ARE ABOVE
THE LAW OF THE LAND'
Muslim leader's stunning claim at Texas
rally for Islam
by
JOHN GRIFFING
Muslims
living in America should not be bound by U.S. law, according to a leader of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, who delivered the controversial message
to a crowd at a Muslim rally in Austin, Texas.
“If we are practicing
Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, executive
director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.
The rally in
Austin was part of a nationwide effort to hold “Muslim Capitol Day” events.
According to the event
website, Muslims from around Texas went to the capitol to “promote civic and
political activism throughout the wider Muslim community.”
The
organizers said one major issue discussed “was the recent House and Senate bill
proposals involving the implementation of ‘anti-Shariah’ legislation, where the
First Amendment rights and freedoms of Muslims would ultimately be hindered.”
Critics argue Shariah prohibits other faiths from free exercise of
religion when enforced, giving freedom only to Muslims.
Carroll’s statement was similar to a statement allegedly made by CAIR
co-founder and former chairman Omar M. Ahmad. He was paraphrased by a
reporter saying, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to
become dominant” and the Quran “should be the highest authority in America, and
Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Carroll began joking
about the widespread concern about Shariah, the religious code that governs
Muslim civil and political life.
“We tried to downplay Shariah, because
we didn’t want to give the other side any excitement for being here,” he said.
He dismissed critics who express concern about Shariah, calling them
“anti-foreign.”
“When you even say the word Shariah, people get nervous.
We are not advocating for Shariah. We are not trying to make Shariah the law of
the land,” he said.
Carroll claimed Muslims only want the “right to
practice our faith.”
But he also said, “If you understand Shariah, the
foundation of our faith … how we treat our neighbor, how we treat our parents …
how we participate in society, all of that is part of Shariah.”
Carroll
is on record defending
Hamas, classified by the U.S. as a terrorist group.
“I think you can
only blame Hamas for so long. It takes two to tango. And I think, you know, that
what we’ve heard for a number of years is this terrorist, terrorist, terrorist,
terrorist, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, was not just Hamas,” he’s said.
At
CAIR’s Dallas banquet in 2007, Carroll denied
the Quran is the source of terrorism.
“Look at the true cause of the
terrorism. It’s not somebody is reading a book, reading a Quran, and then go out
and say, ‘Well, the Quran told me to blow this up. I’m gonna blow it up.’ The
cause, the root cause of terrorism is oppression. The root cause of terrorism is
oppression.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/we-are-above-the-law-of-the-land/#7QLzhvWduD4lHW6I.99
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